LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



DDD1733bb7fl 



HoUinger Corp. 
pH83 



SD 363 
.P6 
Copy 1 



1911 

ARBOR DAY MESSAGE 
TO BOYS AND GIRLS 




TREES NEGLECTED 




TREES PROTECTED 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

PLANTING AND PRESERVATION OF CITY TREES 

Headquarters: Children's Museum, in Bedford Park 
Brooklyn Avenue and Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



ARBOR DAY MESSAGE ^^ 
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE ^ 



BROOKLYN SCHOOLS 



Arbor Day has a special message for you, boys and girls. 
It calls attention to the trees of our city; to the need of caring for 
those we have, and also of planting many more trees. Do you 
not like a s'.reet over-arched with beautiful green trees far better 
than a barren unshaded street? Would not your school be much 
more attractive if it were surrounded by trees? Did you ever 
think why you prefer to walk in our parks instead of in vacant 
lots? 

Trees make your surroundings beautiful and healthful, and 
for this reason Arbor Day brings you its three-fold message. 
First : It tells you what the trees need. 

Second : It explains to you what boys and ^irls 
can do for the trees. 
Third : It su^^ests how you can help in plant- 
ing more trees. 

Do you realize how many difficulties the beautiful trees have 
to overcome in making themselves so useful? City trees are not 
living in their natural home, the forest; on the contrary, they have 
a hard struggle for food, air and water. They have also many 
insect enemies continually destroyin-g :them. Horses gnaw the 
bark wounding them sadly, and 'thoughtless boys break off the 
branches and hack the trunks. 



-/. 



Perhaps you have never thought how you can help in sav- 
ing our trees. The second part of our message asks you to culti- 
vate and water the soil around the roots of some tree in the dry, 
^.''^^ hot weather. Will you not keep horses away from the tender 

hJk bark and loosen the guard when it becomes too tight for the 

^ growing trunk? Above all, will you not look for the white egg 

clusters of the Tussock Moth on the bark of many trees and on 
c fences? You can gather and burn these egg clusters, each one 

■^ of which contains perhaps five hundred eggs which may hatch 

into five hundred hungry caterpillars next month. These five 
hundred caterpillars will then develop into moths from which a 
second more troublesome brood will appear. 

See then how much ^ood you can do by de- 
stroying even one eg^ mass! 

Now the third part of this Arbor Day Message seeks your 
help in getting more trees for our city. There are several ways 
in which you can work, and the AMERICAN ASSOCIA- 
TION FOR THE PLANTING AND PRESERVA- 
TION OF CITY TREES will gladly point out some of 
these ways. It will help you to form a tree club for studying, 
preserving and planting trees. Come to the headquarters and 
find out what to do. 

Arbor Day is a starting point for all this good work. If you 
begin today to take especial pride m the trees of your parks and 
your neighborhood and to care for them, you will soon become a 
power in helping yourselves, your friends and your city. 

Brooklyn, New York 
May 5, 19 II 



LIBRfiRY OF CONGRESS 



001 733 667 8 ^ 



^/' ^hiircuiThoutaTTee 



'Bleak in uj'intei 
Scorched in sumoQer- 




A Its skies 7eps\n(^ Tdin 



ftll the earth a desert 
If man and insecf 
DesTroy the trees 



Its soil becoming sttrile- 





^ j% '^ 



